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RE: tag minimisation
- From: "Andrew Welch" <andrew at thebristoldirectory dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 10:03:26 -0000
- Subject: RE: [xsl] tag minimisation
- Reply-to: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
>So the best solution is to feed HTML into IE.
Always a good choice :)
Using xsl to get that html:
<span><xsl:value-of select="whatever"/></span> and 'whatever' is nothing,
msxml2.6 outputs
<span/>
whereas msxml3/4 and instant saxon outputs
<span></span>
The minimised <span/> highlights the problem (bug?) with css as Ive
mentioned, which is why I was asking if there was a way of forcing the
parser to not minimise.
cheers
andrew
===
>
>
> >No it is entirely up to the system how it linearises empty elements:
> >some XSLT systems use <p/> some <p></p> .Since every XML system will
> >treet these identically it shouldn't matter which you get.
>
> Well, it does matter.
No, it doesn't - for an XML parser.
> I will give you some code:
>
> <style>
> span p {margin-left:0em}
> p {margin-left:2.5em}
> </style>
> <body>
> <span></span>
> <p>Hello</p>
> <span/>
> <p>world</p>
> </body>
>
> The output you will get in IE5.5 is:
>
> Hello
> World
When you feed (X)HTML into IE5.5, the normal HTML processor displays it.
Contrary to popular belief, IE is NOT an XHTML processor, so you can't rely
on XML's syntactical features.
So the best solution is to feed HTML into IE.
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